Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
FREE English Teaching Resource
Words Instead of Said is a handy PowerPoint presentation focusing on vocabulary and using alternatives to the word ‘said’ to develop word choice skills. The PowerPoint lesson focuses on word choice and language and teaches learners how to use a wider vocabulary within the correct context. Content includes:
Examples of ‘said’ alternatives
Class activity
A worksheet
Words Instead of Said can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into an existing lesson or developed into a unit of work on wider language issues.
‘Words Instead of Said’ is fully editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource, if needed, to suit each class they teach.
KS1 Christmas Bundle
This KS1 English and maths teaching bundle contains the following 7 PowerPoint presentations with accompanying worksheets:
A Letter to Father Christmas - KS1
Christmas Crackers - Year 1
Christmas Numbers - Year 1
Christmas SPAG Activities 1 - KS1
Rudolph Saves Christmas - KS1
Rudolph’s Word Search
Telling the Time - Around the World with Rudolph
All our PowerPoint teaching resources are completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.
This bundle gives you a saving of 37% when compared to buying each resource individually.
For a full description and preview of each resource please click on the images above.
Making Words - ‘og’, ‘ot’ and ‘op’
EYFS English Teaching Resource
In this English teaching resource, children practise spelling CVC words ending in ‘og’, ‘ot’ and ‘op’.
'Making Words - ‘og’, ‘ot’ and ‘op’’ is a 14 slide Powerpoint presentation that includes an interactive activity with an accompanying worksheet.
‘Making Words - ‘og’, ‘ot’ and ‘op’’ is fully editable giving teachers the freedom to adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class taught.
Sentence Dictation 2 - Year 1
In this English teaching resource, pupils practise sentence writing by writing simple sentences dictated by the teacher as per the curriculum objective of the Year 1 English programme of study - Writing - transcription. Pupils are awarded points for correct spelling of key words and correct punctuation. This resource covers the statutory spelling patterns and words for Year 1, Term 2. Content includes:
PowerPoint presentation
Activities to support the teaching of this objective
2 accompanying worksheets
‘Sentence Dictation 2 - Year 1’ is fully editable allowing teachers to adapt the resource if needed to suit each class they teach.
To preview ‘Sentence Dictation 2 - Year 1’ click on the images.
An Inspector Calls - GCSE Unit of Work
‘An Inspector Calls’ is a 22 lesson GCSE unit of work containing a 177-slide PowerPoint and 28 PDF worksheets. This scheme of work explores the play act by act and scene by scene, analysing its plot, characters, themes, language and historical context through a range of engaging learning activities.
Activities contained in the lessons include:
- Exploring the historical, social and literary context of An Inspector Calls
- Engaging scene by scene activities to consolidate understanding as pupils read through the play
- Comprehension questions to assess students’ knowledge of plot, character, language, context and themes
- Detailed analysis of the characters of Mr Birling, Mrs Birling, Sheila, Gerald, Eric and Inspector Goole
- Exploration of the key themes of class, social responsibility, socialism and capitalism
- Developing key reading skills - inference and deduction
- Using P.E.T.E.R. Point/Evidence/Technique/Explain/Reader to write an effective GCSE exam response
- Close analysis of Priestley’s language, key quotes and the play’s key soliloquies and monologues
- The use of dramatic irony and tension and suspense in An Inspector Calls
- Role play - hot-seating activities to aid understating of characters
- Developing understanding of key characters through empathy writing activities
- Video links to help the teaching and learning of key scenes and themes
Easily Confused Words - Quite and Quiet
‘Easily Confused Words - Quite and Quiet’ is a handy PowerPoint presentation focusing on spelling skills and near homophones. It explains the difference between ‘quite’ and ‘quiet’ and teaches pupils how to use ‘quite’ and ‘quiet’ in the correct context. Content includes:
‘quite’ and ‘quiet’ definitions and examples
Consolidation of understanding activity
Peer assessment task
An accompanying worksheet
‘Easily Confused Words - Quite and Quiet’ can be used as a starter activity, incorporated into a lesson or developed into a lesson on wider spelling rules and near homophones.
Using Pronouns to Avoid Repetition - KS3: Essential English Skills
Our ‘Year 7 Essential English Skills’ resources are designed to help Year 7 learners master key English skills which were not fully developed at KS2.
‘Using Pronouns to Avoid Repetition - KS3’ explains how to use pronouns effectively in written work. It recaps nouns and pronouns and contains whole group and individual activities designed to help children understand when and how to use pronouns to avoid repetition.
The resource is differentiated (lower, middle and higher ability tasks) and fully editable giving you the freedom to use it as it is or adapt it for your needs.
Writing for Different Purposes
Our ‘Writing for Different Purposes’ teaching resource explains how the purpose of a text affects its composition. The resource has been made with KS3 learners in mind, but it can be easily adapted for use with KS4 students.
This fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource covers the following:
What do we mean by the purpose of a text?
How to identify the purpose of a text.
Exploring different purposes.
Adapting written work to fit an explicit purpose.
A brilliant bundle of KS3 English teaching resources ideal for the Autumn Term.
Resources include ‘Autobiography’, ‘Roald Dahl Day’, ‘A Letter to Primary School’, ‘Autumn Poetry’, ‘All About Me’, ‘Halloween Word Search’ and ‘Halloween Wow Words���.
Writing to Entertain
English Writing Unit of Work
‘Writing to Entertain’ is a ten lesson unit of work focusing on writing an entertaining short story. Content includes:
What makes a good story opening?
Using narrative hooks to engage the reader
Developing and improving pupils’ vocabulary
How to structure a piece of creative writing
How to write a vivid description
Using a five-stage narrative structure effectively
Using literary devices such as similes, metaphors, verbs, adjectives and adverbs to improve writing
How to improve written work by drafting and redrafting
16 accompanying worksheets
Although it has been produced with KS3 students in mind, ‘Writing to Entertain’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required to suit Year 6 and KS4 pupils.
Texts to Inform or Entertain
‘Texts to Inform or Entertain’ is a handy English reading teaching resource focusing on identifying the differences between texts written to inform and texts written to entertain. Content includes:
A PowerPoint lesson
Activities to support the teaching of this objective
2 accompanying worksheets
‘Texts to Inform or Entertain’ can be edited allowing teachers to adapt the resource to suit the needs of each class they teach.
SATs English Reading Test Prep - Thoughts and Feelings
In this KS2 English reading teaching resource, pupils practise using evidence from a text to work out what a character is thinking and feeling in preparation for the KS2 SATs reading test. Content includes:
An editable PowerPoint lesson covering long answer style questions
A worksheet booklet containing examples of these long answer questions
The Merchant of Venice is a 143-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with 9 accompanying worksheets. It contains a progressive series of lessons that develop pupil knowledge and understanding of plot, characters, themes, context and language.
This KS3 unit contains 12 lessons which cover a range of activities, including:
Understanding the play’s plot
Analysing the characters
Exploring Shakespeare’s language and use of imagery
Discussing the key themes and ideas of The Merchant of Venice
Studying stagecraft - how Shakespeare creates and resolves conflict
Context - women’s rights, Christianity and antisemitism in Elizabethan England
Comprehension questions (with model answers provided) for each act.
And a lot more. Click the images to preview this unit of work for The Merchant of Venice.
‘Using a Thesaurus’ is a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation focusing on how to use a thesaurus to improve writing skills. For use with either Upper KS2 or Lower KS3 depending on ability.
This PowerPoint-based lesson explores how the use of a thesaurus can help to develop word, sentence and text level skills in writing. It includes the following activities:
Definition of synonyms.
Explanation of how a thesaurus works.
Using a traditional thesaurus.
Using a digital or online thesaurus such as the Microsoft thesaurus in Word, PowerPoint and Publisher.
Using a thesaurus to improve vocabulary task.
Peer assessment and consolidation of understanding plenary activity.
GCSE English Language Reading Comprehension Skills 2
This three-lesson mini-unit is designed to help GCSE students develop their Reading Fiction comprehension skills. It is made up of a 48-slide PowerPoint presentation, 8 worksheets and a comprehension task that uses an extract from the novel ‘Extra Life’ by Oliver Kean.
Contents:
Lesson One
An introduction to the ‘Reading Fiction’ section of the GCSE English Language exam
How to approach the exam task
Analysing an extract - first and second reading
Consolidation and using deduction skills
How to write an extended answer about language
Lesson Two
How to refer to the text and use quotes effectively
How to write about structure
How to answer a 20-mark evaluation question effectively
A 45-minute assessment task
Lesson Three
Feedback and discussion of student responses
All five GCSE-type assessment questions and answers explored in detail
Exemplar answers for all five questions
‘GCSE English Language Reading Comprehension Skills 2’ has everything you need to help you develop essential ‘Reading Fiction’ exam skills.
Click the images to preview the resource.
Writing for Different Audiences
‘Writing for Different Audiences’ English teaching resource explains how the audience of a text affects its composition. The resource has been made with KS3 students in mind but it can be easily tweaked for use with upper KS2 or lower ability KS4 students. Content includes:
An editable PowerPoint lesson
Activities to support the teaching of this objective
1 accompanying worksheet
Eduqas GCSE English Language Exam Bundle - Paper One helps GCSE pupils prepare for Paper One (Component 1) of the GCSE English examination.
This teaching resource covers:
An example exam paper with example questions and model answers
A step by step guide through every question on Section A and Section B of Paper 1. The resource breaks every question down and explains how best to approach each one
How to deduce information from a text and how to produce detailed extended responses
How each question is assessed
How to write a short story as required by Section B
How to use language, punctuation and grammar for maximum creative effect
And much, much more!
Eduqas GCSE English Language Exam - Paper One Bundle can be used at any time during the GCSE course but it is especially helpful for revision when exams are approaching.
Improving Reading Skills - Year 7
‘Improving Reading Skills’ has been created to help pupils develop their prose reading skills. The resource explores a range of key reading skills including:
Examining form, language and mood
Developing reading for meaning and understanding skills
Inference and deduction
Non-fiction (travel writing and autobiography)
Improving Reading Skills also includes two example texts and assessment materials within a worksheet booklet.
‘Improving Reading Skills - Year 7’ is fully editable, giving teachers the freedom, if required, to adapt the resource to suit their individual teaching requirements.
Make a Father’s Day Card
Writing > Non-fiction
‘Make a Father’s Day Card’ is a fully editable teaching resource which is ideal for KS2 or lower KS3 students studying non-fiction. The resource includes:
Task and lesson objectives
Exploring a range of greeting cards
Discussion of purpose and audience
Reflecting on learning through constructive criticism
The drafting process - how and why we redraft
1 accompanying worksheet
Comparing Dulce et Decorum Est and The Charge of the Light Brigade
(93-slide PowerPoint and 4 worksheets)
Comparing Dulce et Decorum Est and The Charge of the Light Brigade contains a range of tasks for all abilities and a detailed analysis of both poems.
Dulce et Decorum Est includes:
A biography of Wilfred Owen.
The historical and social context of Dulce et Decorum Est - World War One, trench warfare, propaganda posters and poetry.
An introduction to the poem, including a video and audio reading of ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’.
A copy of ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’.
Consolidation of understanding and comprehension tasks.
Wilfred Owen’s use of imagery in Dulce et Decorum Est.
Structure and poetic techniques in the poem.
The theme and message of Dulce et Decorum Est.
Links to the Wilfred Owen website, more war poetry, an audio video reading of Dulce et Decorum Est, BBC history WWI resources, Recruiting and war propaganda posters.
Comparing the poems framework.
The Charge of the Light Brigade includes:
A brief biography of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Social and historical context of the poem.
Analysis of the poem The Charge of the Light Brigade and discussion of ideas and consolidation.
Structure & language - Discuss how Tennyson employs structure and analysis of imagery in The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Style and form - Analysis of Tennyson’s style and form and the use of poetic devices in The Charge of the Light Brigade.
Language - Exploration of word choices.
Themes of The Charge of the Light Brigade explored, consolidation of meaning and purpose.
Links - Where to find further information and analysis of the poet and the battle and clips from the film.
A framework for comparing the poems.